How to aggregate the sum of a field to a string_Aggregated value Postgres

Question

The query below shows me a list of students with their basic info.

I wanted to aggregate the sum of boys and girls without having to display seperate columns for them. So I created 2 columns, and I took their final sum and displayed it in the final row.

Part 1

with ext as (
select s.studentid as SID,p.surname AS Lastname,
        p.firstname AS Firstname,
        p.sex AS Gender,
        p.birthdate AS BDate,
        ctf.name as Nation,
      SUM(CASE WHEN p.sex = 'MALE' THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS BoyCount,
      SUM(CASE WHEN p.sex = 'FEMALE' THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS GirlCount
from students s
        join pupil p on p.id = s.pupilid
        join pupilnation pn on pn.pupilid = p.id
        join country ctf on ctf.id = pn.coutnryid
        ...   
group by s.studentid, p.surname, p.firstname,p.sex,p.birthdate,ctf.name
)

Part2

select SID,Lastname,Firstname,Gender,BDate,Nation
from ext
union all
select 'Students: ' || cast(count(SID) as varchar(6)), 
    null as Lastname, 
    null as Firstname,
    'Boys: ' || cast(sum(boycount) as varchar(6)) || '   Girls: ' || cast(sum(girlcount) as varchar(6)),
    null as Bdate,
    string_agg(distinct Nation,',')

Results

SID     Firstname   Gender  Bdate       Nation
723785  Saria       FEMALE  20.01.2012  France
45949   Wenzel      MALE    08.11.2011  Germany
3373    Constantin  MALE    19.03.2006  Germany
727578  Laurin      MALE    08.04.2012  Germany
157     Valerian    MALE    15.01.2008  UK
595959  Attila      MALE    08.06.2012  USA
4172    Sophie      FEMALE  01.11.2004  France
693465  Ibrahim     MALE    16.05.2011  Belgium
…                   
…                   
12 Students         8 Males 4 Females   Germany, France, UK, US, Ughanda

Expected Results

I want to have the aggregated final sum of each nation attached to its string in a string aggregation. Would this be possible as shown below? E.g. Germany: 5, France: 3, UK: 2, US: 1, Ughanda: 1

SID     Firstname   Gender  Bdate       Nation
723785  Saria       FEMALE  20.01.2012  France
45949   Wenzel      MALE    08.11.2011  Germany
…                   
…                       
12 Students         8 Males 4 Females   Germany: 5, France: 3, UK: 2, US: 1, Ughanda: 1

D-Shih · Accepted Answer · 2018-09-17T09:58:13.720

you can write a subquery count by Nation in select then use string_agg function.

select SID,Lastname,Firstname,Gender,BDate,Nation
from ext
union all
select 'Students: ' || cast(count(SID) as varchar(6)), 
    null as Lastname, 
    null as Firstname,
    'Boys: ' || cast(sum(boycount) as varchar(6)) || '   Girls: ' || cast(sum(girlcount) as varchar(6)),
    null as Bdate,
    (
        select  string_agg(cnt , ', ') from 
        (
          SELECT Nation||':'||COUNT(*) cnt
          FROM ext
          GROUP BY Nation
        ) t1
    )
FROM ext

or your can use CROSS JOIN to make it

SELECT 
    'Students: ' || cast(totalCnt as varchar(6)), 
    null as Lastname, 
    null as Firstname,
    'Boys: ' || cast(boyCnt as varchar(6)) || '   Girls: ' || cast(girlCnt as varchar(6)),
    null as Bdate,
    v.Nation
FROM (
    select  
       sum(boycount) boyCnt,
       sum(girlcount) girlCnt,
       count(SID) totalCnt
    FROM ext
) t1 
CROSS JOIN (
  select string_agg(cnt , ', ') Nation from 
  (
    SELECT Nation||':'||COUNT(*) cnt
    FROM ext
    GROUP BY Nation
  ) t1
) v

How to aggregate the sum of a field to a string_Aggregated value Postgres

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